Brian Bergeron

Last weekend I went to my friend Bob’s (from the band Cahill) bachelor party, which was organized by Mike Farrell, a friend who I don’t get the chance to see too often. In fact, the last time I saw him was the night Obama got elected, a momentous occasion, but much has happened since then. I filled [...]

I got word this morning that it is very likely that my favorite Red Sox player, Mike Lowell, will be traded to the Texas Rangers. I understand that it is a move that will more than likely make the Sox better, which I can appreciate, but baseball players that I become attached to are one [...]

Because of a recommendation on Thanksgiving, I’ve started checking out NPR’s Planet Money. I treasure all things NPR to begin with and Planet Money is no exception. I first heard a co-production they did with This American Life on the financial collapse and thought it was very well done. I’m now subscribed to their podcast [...]

The first time I heard I and Love and You by the Avett Brothers, I changed the station without even hearing who the song was by. I put it in the same category of cheesy ballads from the likes of Snow Patrol and wasn’t grabbed by its simplicity. The second time I heard it, I was [...]

I’m a third of the way through the HBO miniseries, The Corner, which I’m able to watch because Netflix is awesome. The Corner was created by the same people who made The Wire, but precedes it by a couple of years. As anyone who is close to me knows, I didn’t know what to [...]

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to listen to Jonathan Safran Foer speak in Brookline. He is the author of two successful novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Both are awesome and are highly recommended. His most recent release, however, is non-fiction and it’s called Eating Animals. It’s a book [...]

I had finished this post before I decided to start my “Thing of the Day” series but I forgot to publish it. Now I can recycle it as the inaugural post for the TOTD. Mwahaha!

My favorite singer-songwriter is doing a short run of shows in the Northeast this week. In fact, he’s in Northampton tonight [...]